Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies will bring opportunities for merchants as consumer adoption grows. There is high consumer interest to use VR for making purchase decisions while shopping online or in-store. Click To Tweet. While E-commerce and digital marketing have proven to be effective platforms, Virtual Reality (VR) is the next innovative technology that will improve and impact the retail and marketing sectors, with market-foresight advisory firm ABI Research forecasting tha

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VRScout

MAY 20, 2018

Madison Square Garden Company teases an ambitious 18,000-seat venue wrapped inside a 170,000-square-foot LED sphere capable of various haptic feedback. If you’ve managed to make it out to the legendary city of sin lately, you may have noticed that gambling is on the decline. It seems as though more and more families have begun flocking to the desert hot spot – an act one would have considered highly inadvisable only 10 short years ago.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

John Carmack, Oculus’ CTO, has revealed work on a new VR video playback technology which he says is coming to Oculus Go and newer Gear VR phones. To show it off, the company is planning a re-release of the animated short Henry, which Carmack says will “set a new bar for immersive video quality.” Henry was the first VR short film released by Oculus Story Studio, the company’s in-house narrative studio which ended up closing in 2017.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 24, 2018

New Balance is helping Liverpool Football Club (FC) fans see how they look in the team's new kits with an augmented reality experience in Snapchat. The Lens uses background segmentation to replace the user's surroundings with a virtual stadium and a full-body mask to place the team's jersey (or kit, in the parlance of the football world) on the user's torso.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2018

Rec Room , the free multiplatform social VR app, is getting a new multiplayer battle royale shooting game soon. Starting June 7th, you’ll be able to engage in some PUBG- style shootouts in what the developers Against Gravity dub Rec Royale. Rec Royale will pit 16 players against each other in a national park setting, including “summer camps, mountains, forests, outposts, ravines, lakes, and tons of loot for scavenging,” Against Grav Community Designer Shawn Whiting says in a

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Next Reality AR

MAY 24, 2018

The company behind Japan's beloved Gozilla, Japan's Toho Studios, has for years tried to give fans the sense of what a giant, nuclear-powered lizard invading Tokyo might feel like. Until now, those attempts have been limited to the movie theater, but now, with the help of the Microsoft HoloLens, Godzilla is finally getting its chance to invade the actual city, with terrified fans looking on from a safe distance.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2018

In a week here in Italy will start a very interesting VR-related event called Immersive Architecture. The name is self-explanatory, but since I like to write a lot of unnecessary sentences, I’ll tell you that it is an event focused on the applications of AR and VR in architecture, design, rendering and all related sector. It will start on May, 31st and end on June, 2nd 2018 and will feature conferences and workshops.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2018

The popular Hasbro game is now available in Oculus Rooms. When the $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus was announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, it was clear that Facebook wanted to make the Oculus Go headset your next social entertainment device. In addition to finally announcing a launch date for Oculus Go, Oculus also revealed an update to Oculus Rooms alongside a partnership with Hasbro that would bring everyone’s favorite board games into VR.

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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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MAY 19, 2018

Google is allegedly developing a standalone augmented reality headset that aims to offer users a tethereless AR experience, German tech publication WinFuture reports. WinFuture maintains they’ve obtained documents proving the existence of the Google AR headset project, which internally carries the code name ‘A65’ The headsets is said to rely on processors built by Qualcomm, and much like Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, Google A65 is said to function without a tether to a

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Next Reality AR

MAY 25, 2018

Many Americans will celebrate the start of the summer this Memorial Day weekend with backyard cookouts, and two brands hope to solidify their invites to those parties through augmented reality experiences in Snapchat. MillerCoors is running a Sponsored Lens that puts virtual sunglasses on users' faces and a cold can of Coors Light in their hands. The Lens sends a virtual can flying into view when users raise their hands into the camera view.

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VR Game Critic

MAY 24, 2018

Yes, it’s finally time to let go of all those Jane Fonda VHS tapes you've been religiously keeping alive and embrace the future of high intensity virtual reality fitness regimes. Here are our latest and best workout VR gaming tips that will bring your cardio levels to a virtual high. From cool rhythm games and runners, to boxing rings… you can even sweat it out in a gladiator arena.

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VRScout

MAY 21, 2018

Attend online auctions, customize limited-edition rides, and test your skills in this blockchain-enabled VR racing experience. As blockchain-based technology continues to dominate the tech industry, it’s the Ethereum platform that’s managed to garner the most attention among developers due in large part to its decentralized, open-source, blockchain-based distributed computing system featuring smart-contract functionality.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2018

OSSIC, the headphone company known for its massively successful 3D headphone crowdfunding campaigns, is shutting down due to lack of capital. The company says in an update announcing its closure that the OSSIC X 3D headphones required “significantly more capital to ramp to full mass production,” which effectively leaves tens of thousands of pre-orders unfulfilled.

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Cats and VR

MAY 24, 2018

Vertigo Games and Jaywalkers Interactive today release Arizona Sunshine – Dead Man DLC for Oculus Rift, HTC VIVE and Windows MR via Steam and Oculus Home. Retailing at $2,49/€2,49, it offers an all-new campaign mission telling a prequel story to Arizona Sunshine. Simultaneously, the major free Two-Handed Weapons Update comes to the base game, bringing the much-anticipated two-handed mode to PC VR players.

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Slashgear

MAY 22, 2018

Mobile VR is about to get a big kick in the rear end from Google and LG. They’ve created a 4.3-inch display that packs in 1,443 pixels per inch with OLED technology. This display also rolls with 120 Hz refresh rate, so you know it’s going to deliver super-smooth, super-realistic graphics for the foreseeable future. Until our eyes get better … Continue reading.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2018

Sensiks is a glimpse of the direction multisensory virtual reality could be heading. One of VR’s obstacles is delivering visceral, skin-deep sensations. Amsterdam-based startup Sensiks is trying to solve this problem with “sensory reality pods,” or SR, as its CEO calls it. Put simply, the “SR pod” is a high-tech booth emitting artificial heat, wind and more while you wear an Oculus Rift headset.

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Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2018

Today at the Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC announced that the Vive Focus standalone headset will be able to wirelessly stream PC VR content from both Steam and Viveport over a 5GHz WiFi connection. HTC says the Focus’ new streaming functionality comes thanks to an “optimized version” of the Riftcat VRidge software, an Android application which provides similar PC VR streaming functionality to smartphone shell headsets.

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Cats and VR

MAY 23, 2018

Snail Games has announced that the first DLC for its multiplayer VR game ARK Park will be available by the end of June for free. Available on all supported platforms, “Pterosaur Hill” will add tons of new content – starting with the introduction of air combat, new maps for exploration, prehistoric creatures, and more. The “Pterosaur Hill” DLC is built around the concept of flight.

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Slashgear

MAY 25, 2018

At Display Week, Apple engineers took telling peeks at next-gen screen technologies of several telling sorts. Hardcore Apple devotees might find themselves at a crossroads in years to come, if what we’re seeing Apple look at this week gets utilized in future Apple product. Especially when it comes to those Apple fans who use the iPhone because they’ve always used … Continue reading.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2018

Let the stand-alone wars begin… Stand-alone VR. It’s the dream of any immersive technology enthusiast. A 100% wireless headset capable of providing immersive and engaging VR content without the need of an external PC or mobile device to operate. As cool as high-end headsets such as the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift may be, there’s nothing quite like the freedom of quickly and easily hopping into an untethered VR experience.

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2018

While it’s exciting to start seeing 6DOF standalone VR headsets like the Vive Focus and Mirage Solo, both unfortunately include a 3DOF controller which in many cases functions as an immersion barrier compared to a fully 6DOF VR system. Today at its Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC said that the 3DOF Vive Focus controller will see a 6DOF mode, and further said that the headset will soon include controller-less hand-tracking for gesture input. 3DOF to 6DOF Controller Upgrade.

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Veative

MAY 23, 2018

What might seem like an innocuous decision, which hand-held controller should be used to give students control within a VR world, might actually turn out to be the deciding factor between a successful classroom experience, or not. Let’s take a closer look at the functionalities of a VR controller in education and contemplate upon which is a better practical solution for the classroom – Wired or Bluetooth.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2018

HTC has just unveiled its 2018 flagship, the HTC U12+, proving that it’s not yet done in the mobile market. It is perhaps no coincidence that it scheduled that announcement mere days before its VIVE Ecosystem Conference (VEC). Because at its VR-centric event, it announced a reimagined VIVE Ecosystem and a new System Update 2.0 for the VIVE Focus which … Continue reading.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2018

A host of game-changing features could put HTC’s 6DoF headset at the top of the stand-alone food chain. Despite the fact it won’t be hitting consumers stateside until later this year, HTC’s answer to standalone VR, the Vive Focus , is already receiving a generous amount of updates and fixes for its strictly Chinese audience. Revealed during the companies annual Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China earlier today, “System Update 2.0” for the Vive Focus adds a gamut of impressive features t

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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly

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